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Move comes after bipartisan concern over her private meeting with Bill Clinton at Phoenix airport

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch responded Friday to criticism over her spontaneous meeting with Bill Clinton, saying it "cast a shadow" over the Justice Department's investigation into Hillary Clinton's email practices. Photo: AP

Attorney General Loretta Lynch expressed regret over a private meeting with former President Bill Clinton this week and moved to quell concerns that it could improperly influence her department’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of private email to do government business.

Ms. Lynch, speaking at the annual Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on Friday, said she plans to accept the recommendations of career prosecutors and federal agents on whether to file charges in the email investigation, from when Mrs. Clinton, the presumptive...